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Eduardo Vianna, developmental educator, profiled in NY Times
Vygotskian educator Eduardo Vianna is profiled today in The New York Times for his empathic, effective work as a college instructor at LaGuardia Community College. You can read reporter Ginia Bellafante’s Raising Ambitions, The Challenge of Teaching at Community Colleges HERE. The profile captures Dr. … Continue reading
‘Performing the World 2014’ investigates: How shall we become?
More than 400 participants from 34 countries attended Performing the World 2014 (PTW) at the All Stars Project’s national headquarters in New York City. The biennial autumn conference, co-sponsored by the Institute and All Stars Project, Inc., brought together performance activists, educators, therapists, … Continue reading
International educators discover ‘spaces to become a head taller’
Educators from the US and several other countries, in town for the 11th International Transformative Learning Conference, at Teachers College, Columbia University, spent a pre-conference afternoon with Institute director Lois Holzman. Her workshop, entitled Spaces to Become A Head Taller introduced the Vygotskian-influenced, performatory … Continue reading
Posted in All Stars Project, creativity and play, Education, Lois Holzman, performance, Social Therapy, Training, Uncategorized
Tagged 11th International Transformative Learning Conference, Aliki Nicolaides, All Stars Project, Ellen Scully-Russ, Inc., Spaces of Transformation and Transformation of Space
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A ‘Revolutionary Vygotsky’ takes the stage at ISCAR Summit in Sydney
The Institute’s director of pedagogy and Rutgers Univ. early childhood education faculty Carrie Lobman was among presenters at The 4th Congress of the International Society for Cultural and Activity Research in Sydney, Australia. The conference drew some 400 scholars and researchers in the … Continue reading
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Tagged Ana Stetsenko, Annalie Pistourus, Cecilia Magalhaes, Fernanda Coelho Liberali, Fernando Gonzalez Rey, Fred Newman, ISCAR, Lois Holzman, Michael Cole, Mike Askew, The 4th Congress of the International Society for Cultural and Activity Research, Wellington Oliviera
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New film by Ishita Sanyal “Opens the Doors” on mental illness in India
This report just in from 2008 International Class alumna Ishita Sanyal (second-from-right in photo above). Her new documentary film project, Open the Doors, which she co-directed with Abhishek Ganguli, recently premiered at the Birla Industrial and Technological Museum in Kolkata. Special guests on hand for the premiere included American Consul … Continue reading
Lobman in Kobe Japan at invitation of Dr. Hiroyuki Imai
An enthusiastic Performing the World 2012 participant and Institute colleague, Dr. Hiroyuki Imai (professor on the Faculty of Foreign Language Studies at Kansai University, Osaka, Japan) was eager to make a creative match: He sought to bring together Japanese educators working in … Continue reading
